Deli Meat Clerk

Safeway; Scottsdale (AZ); On-site; USD 10,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a leading grocery chain as a Deli Meat Clerk where you will provide outstanding customer service in a friendly atmosphere. Your responsibilities include preparing and displaying various meat products while adhering to safety and cleanliness standards. This entry-level, part-time position offers a supportive work environment with opportunities for growth.

Benefits

Flexible work schedules

Diverse and Inclusive work culture

Health and welfare benefits

Associate discounts

Competitive wages paid weekly

Qualifications

• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to lift up to 80 lbs repetitively.
• Knowledge of product handling and safety regulations.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a customer-friendly atmosphere while providing fast service.
• Trimming, cutting, and displaying meat products.
• Ensuring cleanliness and safety in the work area.

Skills

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Manual dexterity

Eye-hand coordination

Job description

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• Maintains an atmosphere of enthusiastic customer awareness with an emphasis on providing fast and friendly Customer Service.
• Assists customers by making product suggestions, filling special orders and food preparation suggestions.
• Engages in suggestive selling and other sales techniques via telephone, in-store intercom, and one-on-one customer interaction.
• Trims, cuts, wraps, trays, grinds, and displays meat. Builds meat and seafood displays, rotates and discards outdated or spoiled product. Ensures cleanliness of work area and department.
• Implements effective promotional and seasonal displays. May be responsible for the operation and maintenance of the meat cooler, freezer, and butcher block.
• Ability to follow and maintain department standards and requirements in handling quick sales items.
• Understands opening and closing department procedures.
• Working knowledge of company policies and guidelines as outlined in the Albertsons/Tom Thumb Employee Handbook.
• Responsible for ensuring proper code dating for all products within the department are being enforced.
• Controls shrink and cost.
• Assists with controlling inventory to ensure adequate product quantity, quality and freshness and maintains inventory levels according to division directives. Stocks and rotates product. Maintains and organizes meat cooler and freezer.
• Implements correct product preparation techniques. Uses and operates related equipment such as pallet jack, hand truck, scissors, knives, grinder, saw, saw blades, safety cutters, price labeling machine and tenderizer.
• Assists with accurately completing, maintaining, and monitoring daily log sheet, Production Chart, Meat Grinding Log, Sales and Labor and other required paperwork and logs.
• Performs receiving duties including breaking downloads, verifying orders using invoices, inspecting quality, reporting shortages, and stocking and rotating product. Adheres to product temperature and storage guidelines and follows proper packaging techniques. May assist with processing administrative paperwork and maintaining accurate department records.
• Ensures that proper temperature levels for product are maintained. Ensures proper signing of products to include accurate pricing and Country of Origin Labeling (COOL). Complies with retail labeling laws, federal and state regulations, and Company and code dating policies.
• Complies with all workplace safety rules and regulations.
• Ensures safety, cleanliness and sanitation of sales floor, work area, freezer, cooler, equipment, cutting room and display area, including code date compliance as required.
• Complies with company grooming standards and dress code.
• Responsible for performing all job duties and responsibilities safely, accurately and with honesty and integrity.
• Other necessary and required duties.
  
  

Meat Clerk

Duties And Responsibilities

• Maintains an atmosphere of enthusiastic customer awareness with an emphasis on providing fast and friendly Customer Service.
• Assists customers by making product suggestions, filling special orders and food preparation suggestions.
• Engages in suggestive selling and other sales techniques via telephone, in-store intercom, and one-on-one customer interaction.
• Trims, cuts, wraps, trays, grinds, and displays meat. Builds meat and seafood displays, rotates and discards outdated or spoiled product. Ensures cleanliness of work area and department.
• Implements effective promotional and seasonal displays. May be responsible for the operation and maintenance of the meat cooler, freezer, and butcher block.
• Ability to follow and maintain department standards and requirements in handling quick sales items.
• Understands opening and closing department procedures.
• Working knowledge of company policies and guidelines as outlined in the Albertsons/Tom Thumb Employee Handbook.
• Responsible for ensuring proper code dating for all products within the department are being enforced.
• Controls shrink and cost.
• Assists with controlling inventory to ensure adequate product quantity, quality and freshness and maintains inventory levels according to division directives. Stocks and rotates product. Maintains and organizes meat cooler and freezer.
• Implements correct product preparation techniques. Uses and operates related equipment such as pallet jack, hand truck, scissors, knives, grinder, saw, saw blades, safety cutters, price labeling machine and tenderizer.
• Assists with accurately completing, maintaining, and monitoring daily log sheet, Production Chart, Meat Grinding Log, Sales and Labor and other required paperwork and logs.
• Performs receiving duties including breaking downloads, verifying orders using invoices, inspecting quality, reporting shortages, and stocking and rotating product. Adheres to product temperature and storage guidelines and follows proper packaging techniques. May assist with processing administrative paperwork and maintaining accurate department records.
• Ensures that proper temperature levels for product are maintained. Ensures proper signing of products to include accurate pricing and Country of Origin Labeling (COOL). Complies with retail labeling laws, federal and state regulations, and Company and code dating policies.
• Complies with all workplace safety rules and regulations.
• Ensures safety, cleanliness and sanitation of sales floor, work area, freezer, cooler, equipment, cutting room and display area, including code date compliance as required.
• Complies with company grooming standards and dress code.
• Responsible for performing all job duties and responsibilities safely, accurately and with honesty and integrity.
• Other necessary and required duties.
  
  

Skills And Physical Requirements

• Requires good communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to maintain a professional demeanor regarding customers and co-workers.
• Requires a good understanding of overall company practices and Meat Department policies and procedures.
• Ability to frequently reach, lift and maneuver objects of varying dimensions and weights up to approximately 80 lbs. Bends, stoops and reaches frequently. Pushes and pulls fully loaded hand trucks and pallet jacks. Performs repetitious arm movement to prepare, package and display products.
• Manual dexterity and good eye-hand coordination are necessary. Able to stand for long periods of time.
• Mental alertness is necessary to ensure safe and accurate completion of work activities. Requires knowledge of basic mathematics and weights and measures. Must have knowledge of product variety, standards, perishability, product handling, sanitation, labeling and department policies and procedures.
• Operates telephone, pallet jack, hand truck, knives, scissors, grinder, tenderizer, saw, saw blades and safety cutters. Utilizes cleaning supplies and equipment.
• Operates computer software and electronic ordering devices to order product.
• May be required to work nights, weekends, and holidays. Scheduled hours will vary. Good attendance is required.
• Exposure to potential hazards exists with respect to equipment and work aids necessary to perform job duties.
  
  

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• Generally, works in a temperature-controlled environment. Frequent exposure to refrigerated conditions and items at or around 35°.
• Occasional travel, including overnight travel, may be required.
  
  

What You Bring To The Table

• You take pride in the work you do, whether big or small.
• You agree that food is central to all our lives.
• Helping customers and fellow associates gives you energy.
• Smiling and making others smile is your favorite.
• You are eager, willing, and wanting to learn & grow.
• You believe that being a part of your community matters.
  
  

Why You Will Choose Us

Albertsons Companies Inc. has always been a people-oriented business, and thoughtful people practices remain a core element of our company’s philosophy. Our goal is to continue to bring people together around the joys of food and to inspire well-being and that starts with people like you bringing your unique self to our company and making it one person stronger and better!

We Also Provide a Variety Of Benefits Including

• Diverse and Inclusive work culture
• Competitive Wages paid weekly
• Flexible work schedules
• Associate discounts
• Leaders invested in your training, career growth & development.
• Health and welfare benefits for eligible employees (Medical, Dental, 401k and more!)
• Vacation / Paid Time Off
  
  

Our Values

• We put people first.
• We are customer driven.
• We value different perspectives.
• We raise the bar.
• We act as owners.
• We are one team.
• We build belonging.
• We are committed to a healthy future.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Part-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Retail

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